毛泽东一生结交了许许多多的党外朋友,其中交往最久、交情最深的,当属爱国民主老人章士钊。毛、章二人是乡邻又是故旧,有公谊也有私交,他们在半个多世纪交往中表现出的那种“道义相砥,过失相规,缓急可共,死生可托”的深厚情谊,至今为人们所称道。 Mao Zedong made a plethora of friendships outside of his life, of which the longest exchanges and the deepest exchanges of friendship were the patriotic and democratic old Zhang Shizhao. Mao and Zhang are both neighbors and old friends. They also have friendship and private diplomacy. They show the same kind of “moral phase” in their relations during more than half a century. Deep friendship, so far praised by people.